Who owns Congress

WHAT IF members of Congress were seated not by party but according to their major business sponsors? We gave it a try—and then kept crunching theTop Corporate Sponsors numbers to find the top 75 corporate spenders of all time, this year's most loaded candidates, Capitol Hill's BP caucus, and much more. All charts are based on federal election data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.

Corporate donations include money given by companies' employees and politicalaction committees, unless noted otherwise. Counting employees as corporate donors isn't perfect: You may not give to a candidate with your employer's interests in mind. Yet excluding individual contributions would overlook "bundled" gifts from a company's employees as well as gifts from executives and their families.

Who Owns Congress? 

Want to follow the money? Below, 75 of the heaviest hitters in campaign cash.

1 AT&T
2 National Association of Realtors
3 Goldman Sachs
4 American Association for Justice
5 Citigroup
6 American Medical Association
7 National Automobile Dealers Association
8 United Parcel Service
9 Altria
10 American Bankers Association

11 National Association of Home Builders 12 National Beer Wholesalers Association 13 Microsoft 14 JPMorgan Chase 15 Time Warner 16 Morgan Stanley 17 Verizon 18 Lockheed Martin 19 General Electric 20 Pfizer 21 FedEx 22 Credit Union National Association 23 Bank of America 24 Ernst & Young 25 Blue Cross/Blue Shield 26 American Dental Association 27 American Hospital Association 28 Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu 29 Pricewaterhouse Coopers 30 UBS 31 Aflac 32 Natl. Assn. of Insurance and Financial Advisors 33 Boeing 34 Union Pacific 35 Merrill Lynch 36 Reynolds American 37 Northrop Grumman 38 American Institute of CPAS 39 BellSouth 40 Credit Suisse 41 Anheuser-Busch 42 National Rural Electric Cooperative Association 43 General Dynamics 44 American Financial Group 45 GlaxoSmithKline 46 Chevron 47 Walt Disney 48 DLA Piper 49 ExxonMobil 50 KPMG 51 MBNA 52 UST 53 Southern Company 54 National Restaurant Association 55 Freddie Mac 56 AIG 57 Koch Industries 58 Prudential Financial 59 MetLife 60 Wal-Mart 61 American Academy of Ophthalmology 62 American Health Care Association 63 Securities Industry and Financial Market Association 64 General Motors 65 CSX 66 Eli Lilly 67 Associated General Contractors 68 Amway/Alticor 69 Archer Daniels Midland 70 American Airlines 71 MCI 72 National Federation of Independent Business 73 American Council of Life Insurers 74 Bristol-Myers Squibb

75 Enron

There are a lot of great illustrations here, well worth taking a look at. I was going to try and put it into a comprehensive thread, but didn't have the time and it would be easier for you guys to see it for yourself. 

For those interested,Finance was the biggest contributer, but we knew that allready, didn't we!?